Benjamin vs Richard

GER GER · Open Men · 2 results

Benjamin Joas

1:31:39 best Open Men time · Berlin 2025
2100th of 2,599 place in that race · 2,599 Open Men finishers
GER GER · Open Men · 2 results

Richard Melcher

1:27:17 best Open Men time · Hamburg 2025
907th of 1,895 place in that race · 1,895 Open Men finishers

Station radar · best race with a field of 30 or more

Benjamin: Berlin 2025, Open Men · Richard: Hamburg 2025, Open Men

50% top SkiPushPullBBJRowCarryLungesWall ballsRoxzoneRuns
BenjaminRichardedge = faster than everyone, centre = slowest

This chart shows where Benjamin and Richard sat in the field on each part of the race: the edge is faster than everyone, the centre is the slowest.Benjamin: strongest on Carry (faster than 42% of the field), weakest on Row (faster than 2%).Richard: strongest on Push (faster than 87% of the field), weakest on Runs (faster than 33%).

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Part Benjamin: faster than Richard: faster than
Ski 10% 68%
Push 39% 87%
Pull 35% 61%
BBJ 27% 51%
Row 2% 58%
Carry 42% 39%
Lunges 9% 52%
Wall balls 9% 85%
Roxzone 33% 41%
Runs 30% 33%

Each athlete against their own field at their own best race (division, gender, that venue). Further out is faster.

Part by part

Part Benjamin Richard
SkiErg 10% 68%
Sled push 39% 87%
Sled pull 35% 61%
Burpee broad jump 27% 51%
Row 2% 58%
Farmers carry 42% 39%
Sandbag lunges 9% 52%
Wall balls 9% 85%
Roxzone (moving) 33% 41%
Runs (8 km) 30% 33%

The share of their own field each athlete beat on that segment, at the race named on the left. Higher is better; green marks the better of the two. A dash means no split was published.

Those races as one bar each

Benjamin · Berlin 2025 · Open Men1:31:39
3:264:494:042:584:404:394:496:165:075:395:112:075:097:266:429:309:14
Richard · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men1:27:17
5:524:184:492:255:234:325:315:395:464:455:312:125:305:226:135:248:14
RunsStationsRoxzone (moving between stations)

This chart draws the race in order, left to right: each 1 km run (blue), each station (yellow) and the roxzone (grey), sized by its time.Benjamin · Berlin 2025 · Open Men: 39:08 running, 43:25 at the stations and 9:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the wall balls (9:30).Below, Richard · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men: 44:36 running, 34:37 at the stations and 8:14 in the roxzone; the longest station was the burpee broad jumps (5:39).

See the numbers
Part Benjamin · Berlin 2025 · Open Men Richard · Hamburg 2025 · Open Men
Run 1 3:26 5:52
SkiErg 4:49 4:18
Run 2 4:04 4:49
Sled push 2:58 2:25
Run 3 4:40 5:23
Sled pull 4:39 4:32
Run 4 4:49 5:31
Burpee broad jump 6:16 5:39
Run 5 5:07 5:46
Row 5:39 4:45
Run 6 5:11 5:31
Farmers carry 2:07 2:12
Run 7 5:09 5:30
Sandbag lunges 7:26 5:22
Run 8 6:42 6:13
Wall balls 9:30 5:24
Roxzone 9:14 8:14
Finish 1:31:39 1:27:17

Head to head: 1 race they both ran

Race Benjamin Richard Gap
Berlin 2025 Open Men · 16 May 2025 1:31:39 1:31:37 0:02 · Richard faster
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